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Dates: during 1940-1949
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House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has been re-elected 15 times in a row, is not one to miss a political trick. This year he decided to surprise the 2,000 graduating high-school pupils in his Texas district with little parchment "diplomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politician at Work | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Texas' Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, who manfully (and successfully) strives to carry out Franklin Roosevelt's orders, without himself losing the love of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Throttlebottom . . . | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...deadlock, stubborn old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton finally gave in. Lectured by Speaker Sam Rayburn, prodded unmercifully by Republicans, he called his Ways & Means Committee together, ordered it to report some kind of tax bill by this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Work Done | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...most Congressmen merely mumbled. Murmured Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I have not studied it completely yet, but I do feel that some of the suggestions are very good." House Majority Leader John W. McCormack ducked: "This is one of the most important issues we have to face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cradle to Grave to Pigeonhole | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Proud Day. A few minutes later in the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn, a bachelor, stepped forward and said: "It is a proud day for the United States of America to receive and to do honor to one of the outstanding women of all the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Madame | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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